<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I was wondering how to handle changing the compute_driver in nova.conf? I currently have the default</div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">compute_driver = libvirt.LibvirtDriver</font><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">libvirt_type=kvm<br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" size="2">I want to be able to add the driver for baremetal provisioning, but I am unclear on how to do this.</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;"><font size="2">Can there be more than one </font><span style="font-size: 13px;">compute_driver or do I have to replace </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">compute_driver = libvirt.LibvirtDriver with the new driver.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style:
normal; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">If I can only replace what will happen to my existing KVM and nova operations? </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Also, I am just using the bearmetal driver as an example. This same question can be applied to any other feature that requires a different </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">compute_driver.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Bear metal driver example </span><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/baremetal.html">http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/baremetal.html</a></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px;">Thank you!</div></div></body></html>